What'a looking good in May

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    This morning:smile:

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      Clematis cartmanii 'Avalanche' is looking beautiful. IMG_5244aresize.JPG
       
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        Double Daffodil

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          Tulips, and then just stuff growing like ferns and Hostas.

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            I know I posted this last month but it just keeps getting bigger :hate-shocked:

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              Some daffs that are still going strong in our front shady area
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              The heucheras are just starting to revive and show some new leaves. Mrs Shiney won a load of them last year.
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              This Clem has been in flower for a month so far.
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              A nice coloured, variegated leafed, tulip.
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              It's not the only plant that seems to have been chewed :th scifD36: :mute:
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                Fuchsia Paniculata

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                  Nice pics, Shiney. Do you know the name of that clematis?
                   
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                  Someone on here did identify it for us but I've forgotten the name :doh: I would guess that @ARMANDII would know.
                   
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                  Possibly Clematis "The President". I don't like i.d.ing Plants due to the different colours of the same images on different computer monitors. One other suggestion might be C.Comtesse de Bouchaud.:coffee::snorky:
                   
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                    Your Heucheras are looking great :)
                     
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                      No need to guess, you can identify it at the end of the month :dbgrtmb: :heehee:
                       
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                        @JackJJW Thanks :).
                        Mrs Shiney won them last year at a big flower show. The competition was 'who can identify these plants' and there were 20 (I think, but can't remember the quantity) plants in pots. She was the only one who identified all of them and won a tray of 12 Heucheras. The man, from a big nursery, said that no one has ever identified all of them before! Mrs Shiney's attitude was "But they were obvious!". :heehee:

                        We planted them in the new bed we made last Spring and they did very well. You can see, in the first picture of them that we haven't yet removed all of last year's leaves on the pink one.

                        One of them with the less showy leaves made up for it with the flowers. End of May last year :blue thumb:
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                          Good afternoon :smile:

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                            Another flower on another tree :) DSCI0313.JPG
                             
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